KYIV, June 18 – Coalmines of the state-owned enterprise (SOE) Lvivvuhillia, which employees announced a strike at the beginning of the month, have partially resumed work, Head of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions and Independent Trade Union of Coalmines Mykhailo Volynets said on Tuesday, referring to Chairman of the trade union of the Mezhyrichanska mine Vasyl Lesniak.

"According to him, the first money in the amount of UAH 30 million came to the account of SOE Lvivvuhillia on the evening of June 14. Today, we expect funds for the shipped coal in the amount of UAH 80 million, which will be used to pay salaries," Volynets wrote on his page in the Facebook social network.